Civil liberties and human rights in twentieth-century Britain / Christopher Moores, University of Birmingham.
2017
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Author
Title
Civil liberties and human rights in twentieth-century Britain / Christopher Moores, University of Birmingham.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Call Number
KD4080 .M66 2017
ISBN
9781107088610 (hardback)
1107088615 (hardback)
1107088615 (hardback)
Description
xv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)957696689
Summary
"The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was formed in the 1930s against a backdrop of fascism and "popular front" movements. In this volatile political atmosphere, the aim of the NCCL was to ensure that civil liberties were a central component of political discourse. Chris Moores's new study shows how the NCCL - now Liberty - had to balance the interests of extremist allies with the desire to become a respectable force campaigning for human rights and civil liberties. From new social movements of the 1960s and 70s to the formation of the Human Rights Act in 1998, this study traces the NCCL's development over the last eighty years. It enables us to observe shifts and continuities in forms of political mobilization throughout the twentieth century, changes in discourse about extensions and retreats of freedoms as well as the theoretical conceptualization and practical protection of rights and liberties"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-317) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
x
Acknowledgements
xi
Abbreviations
xiv
Introduction: An Age of Rights
1
pt. I
Civil Liberties in the Age of the Popular Front
21
1.
Decent Citizens and Agitators: Civil Liberties Activism in the 1930s
23
2.
From Civil Liberties to Human Rights: British Civil Liberties Activism and Universal Human Rights
71
pt. II
Civil Liberties, a Rights Revolution and New Social Movements
103
3.
Progressive Professionals: Civil Liberties and the Politics of Activism in the 1960s
105
4.
From Progressive to Radical: The 1970s and a Crisis of Civil liberties
144
pt. III
NGOs and the Consolidation of Human Rights
219
5.
Road to Freedom? Civil Liberties, Human Rights and the Evolution of the NGO in the Age of Thatcher
221
6.
Politics of Vigilance: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Activism during and beyond the Age of New Labour
262
Bibliography
286
Index
318